Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Tim Johnson

For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers

2014-04-28

For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers McClatchy DC: Watching Washington and the World 2013-08-22 Tim Johnson, McClatchy Foreign Staff MEXICO CITY — Flip through the print publications exalting the activities of Mexico’s high society and there’s one thing you rarely find: dark-skinned people. No matter that nearly two-thirds of Mexicans consider themselves moreno, the…
University of Vermont study examines biracial identity

2010-12-30

University of Vermont study examines biracial identity Burlington Free Press 2010-12-28 Tim Johnson, Free Press Staff Writer Even though he was born of a white mother and an African father, Barack Obama is commonly referred to as the first black president. That’s a sign, sociologists say, that America’s “one-drop rule”—a vestige of the United States’…